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Volume 16 No. 3
TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2011
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YOUR GUIDE TO
ADULT EDUCATION
>> EIGHT PAGE FEATURE - PAGES 25-32
DINOSAURS COME
BACK TO LIFE
>>FUNINTHECITY-37
Lifestyle attracts our new citizen
By
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Hannah Jonkers
Queanbeyan local Alida Lombard, with husband Mark Edwards, will officially become an Australian citizen tomorrow evening.
Picture: Elesa Lee
QUEANBEYAN resident Alida
Lombard will officially be welcomed
as one of the region's newest citizens
tomorrow evening.
The South African native said she
was ''really excited'' about becoming
an Australian citizen at Queanbeyan
Park.
''I love the Australian way of life,
the enthusiasm, the pride, they're
wearing their flag,'' Dr Lombard said.
''It's such a good way of life and
you feel safe.''
Dr Lombard, an anesthesia registrar
at Calvary Hospital, has lived in the
region for three years with her hus-
band, Mark Edwards.
''We really like Queanbeyan and the
Canberra area,'' Dr Lombard said. She
said they planned to stay in the region
for the next few years.
''It's a pleasant place,'' Dr Lombard
said.
''You don't have to struggle with
traffic.''
Dr Lombard was born in Pretoria,
South Africa, and lived in Cape Town,
before commencing university in
Vancouver, Canada.
She lived there for five years before
applying for a four-year postgraduate
medicine degree at Flinders University
in Adelaide.
Dr Lombard was accepted into the
course and moved to Australia eight
years ago.
She said she went from continual
rainy winters in Vancouver, to three
months of drought in Adelaide.
''It was a bit of getting used to,'' Dr
Lombard said. Her family moved to
Vancouver a year after she came to
Australia to commence her studies.
''Even though my family is in Canada,
this is where we're going to live,'' Dr
Lombard said.
She said she was looking forward to
being able to vote, as she followed
politics. ''I want to make change,'' Dr
Lombard said.